On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 15:54 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:46:38PM +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > > > yap, in my opinion this function should back to > > > +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_ENABLE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_ANY_ID, quirk_via_irq); > > > this is *obviousyl* wrong, it should never have been merged like that > and there are reports and complaints this causes problems for some > people > It was like that in kernel 2.6.16 and previous since, I don't know, 2.6.9 or 2.6.13 .... > > we should first attempt to get all the IDs (some are clearly missing > still, patch coming up to address that) and where that fails perhaps > have a kernel command-line parameter to be overly aggressive as a > stop-gap until we van figure out the proper solution I believe this quirks is just for VIA system with interrupts in XT-PIC mode (like my old laptop). > > i'd also like to figure out why the quirk is needed/fails when people > are using ACPI for interrupt routing as presumbly that must work as > windows relies on it yes, this is other mysterious, why boot with acpi=noirq could be one workaround. But could be other problem more related with usb drives.
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